About Colette
Colette Spaulding draws on client-centered care to build a calm, supportive space for people in distress. She focuses on practical strategies that reduce anxiety, manage mood fluctuations, and address effects of past trauma. Colette uses clear, direct language and a warm tone to make therapy feel approachable and doable.
Colette asks, “What has happened to you?” rather than “What is wrong with you?” She listens for patterns, strengths, and coping habits, then helps people put together steps that fit their lives.
How Colette works
Sessions emphasize skills that can be used between meetings, like grounding, communication techniques, and mood management tools. Her approach blends several methods. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing can be used when past events continue to cause strong reactions. Colette brings 15 years of experience as a Licensed Master Social Worker, LMSW.
She has supported people dealing with trauma, domestic violence, anxiety, depression, and co-occurring concerns. Her work includes addressing addiction, grief, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, and relationship struggles. Sessions aim for steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Colette values humor alongside seriousness, so people can acknowledge pain while noticing small sources of relief. She collaborates on goals and adjusts methods as needs change.
Colette lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Colette works with
The areas below are the ones Colette selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online care
Colette integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy into online sessions to give people tools they can use right away. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against reality, which can reduce anxiety and depressive patterns. DBT offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving regulation, and handling interpersonal stress.She may also use Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for lingering reactions to past events when appropriate. EMDR works by processing distressing memories so they cause less disruption in daily life. Choosing which approaches to use is a collaborative process; the therapist helps clarify goals, tries techniques, and adjusts the plan based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls let people talk face to face when that feels useful. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat or messaging can support short check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep work on coping skills between meetings.
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